Tag Archives: muru-D

September 26, 2016Comments Off on Behind the scenes with River City Labs’ second muru-D accelerator cohort369 Views

Like cheese in a mousetrap, the temptation of six months intensive mentoring, $60,000 funding, and introductions to top local and international investors proved too hard to resist for the teams who were announced last week as the second muru-D Brisbane ...

August 27, 2016Comments Off on Travello secures $1.26 million in funding from local investors666 Views

It was almost Christmas: the busiest travel season of the Southern Hemisphere, when Brisbane mates Ryan Hanly and Mark Cantoni, had their global travel app pulled from Apple’s app store. The timing couldn’t be worse. Not only did the Outbound ...

July 26, 2016Comments Off on Brisbane mates raise the stakes along with $750k4,247 Views

An Englishman, an Irishman and an Australian walk into a bar. They bet on horse racing, their billiards game and their beer sculling contest. One of them wins all three bets. The winner doesn’t get paid. Why not? No, this ...

June 24, 2016Comments Off on 7 Unexpected lessons I learned at the muru-D accelerator501 Views

It was late Saturday night and my GreenSocks co-founder Richard Eastes and I were walking out of River City Labs, having just had our startup concept picked to pieces at the muru-D accelerator‘s pre-selection boot camp. Demoralised but not defeated, Richard’s ...

Early last week, Brisbane co-working space River City Labs and Telstra-backed accelerator muru-D announced the first intake for their joint-funded “River City Labs Accelerator” program. As we discussed last time, the inaugural accelerator offers $20,000 seed capital in return for 3% equity, and ...

Brisbane co-working hub and startup hotspot River City Labs has announced their first ever accelerator program, the fittingly titled River City Labs Accelerator, which has been launched as part of a trial partnership with Telstra-backed accelerator muru-D. The fourteen week ...